Progress Monitoring & Assessment Resources

What are Progress Monitoring Assessments?

The Colorado Department of Education provides the following information regarding progress monitoring:

"Progress monitoring assessments are also brief, but are given periodically to determine whether students are making adequate progress. Progress monitoring assessment data should be collected, evaluated, and used on an ongoing basis for the following purposes:

• Determine rate of a student's progress,
• Provide information on the effectiveness of instruction and to modify the intervention if necessary,
• Identify the need for additional information,
• Analyze and interpret gaps between benchmarks and achievement."

("Colorado's Six Components of RtI:." Response to Intervention (RTI). N.p., n.d. Web. 19 July 2013.)

Progress monitoring assessments are formative assessments that provide teachers feedback about student learning successes and failures, as well as the effectiveness of instructional practices and interventions.

Resources for Progress Monitoring Tools & Procedures

• National Center on Response to Intervention Progress Monitoring Resource
• DCSD Data Analysis and Progress Monitoring Google Site Page
• DCSD Balanced Assessment Site - Formative Assessment Link
• Curriculum Based Measurement Resources
• Progress Monitoring Tools Chart

Online charting applications:

Chartdog http://www.interventioncentral.org/

Create-a-Graph http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx

Date Grapher http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=204

Additional Assessment Resources

Efficient Ways to Check for Understanding - Edutopia Article